This weekend I'm seeing lots of articles singing the praises of Title IX. They universally celebrate the way the law gave the girls equal opportunities with the boys in sports. In these times it's not cool to suggest there might be any downside to this big government program.
I'm happy that girls have their own chances to play. But the bottom line to this issue is just like most other issues - the bottom line. The effect of Title IX was that it told schools that they had to create girls programs using money raised by the boys' programs. So the boys football and basketball teams bring in huge dollars at schools across the country. The law forced the schools to steal a big chunk of that money in order to fund a girl's sport.
Colleges around the country were forced to close down some of their men's varsity teams, because another unfortunate outcome of this law was that they had to guarantee equity in the number of varsity programs between the boys and girls. The schools couldn't figure out a way to add 2 or 3 or 4 more girls' teams to balance the number of boys' teams, so varsity sports like men's volleyball, track and field, hockey, swimming, and maybe even baseball got dropped.
For me, that's just silly. Reflecting the leftist attitude that everybody's got to get equal outcomes whether earned or not, there's plenty of unfairness in play while the government implements their own version of fair.
One article talked about a lawsuit challenging game schedules for high school boys and girls basketball. The suit complains that the boys get all the best game times, ie Friday nights, while the girls are stuck with games on weekday evenings and Saturdays. Come on, give me a break!
Oh well, it's just me again, that lonely voice crying out in the wilderness against the stupidity of our culture.
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